Amplify what people bring.

Judgment, creativity, relationships, trust, and domain expertise give the work direction. AI adds reach, synthesis, coding, and speed. The interesting work is designing how those contributions fit together.

In practice

Before a workflow ships, I decide three things out loud: who evaluates the result, what evidence they need to do it, and which decisions require a person’s authority before anything leaves the building. Then I put those boundaries in the system, not in the prompt. A sentence asking the model to check with someone first is a request. A gate it can’t skip is a control.

The tradeoff

Every gate costs attention, and a gate on everything gets clicked through. The design question is where consequence and detectability meet: involve a person when a mistake would be expensive to reverse or difficult to detect afterward. Lower-consequence work may fit bounded execution with scheduled review and clear escalation rules.

Go deeper

Give judgment a clear job in the field guide covers the three arrangements I choose among and why.